21.   The international cycling federation recently started taking blood samples from riders before races.

22.   The prince joins judo gold medalist Anton Geesink and international cycling federation president Hein Verbruggen.

23.   The Swiss cycling federation on Tuesday suspended rider Roland Meier for eight months after he tested positive for the banned hormone EPO.

24.   The Swiss cycling federation said Thursday it had reduced to six months the doping ban on cyclist Stefan Ruetimann.

25.   Throughout the years Longo has had problems with the French cycling federation, preferring to train alone and away from the team.

26.   Australian rider Kathy Watt is set to take her national cycling federation to an arbitration panel after she was axed from the Olympic pursuit race on Sunday.

27.   This was not the case for Indurain, a French medical commission attached to the cycling federation has ruled.

28.   The French cycling federation refused to ban her saying the testing procedure was wrongly carried out.